Faculty Research
The research expertise of the CEE Faculty and Staff spans a variety of specialties.
Faculty Research Interests
Please feel free to contact any faculty member directly or Dr. Taha Marhaba, department chair, if you would like more information about CEE research capabilities and projects (taha.f.marhaba@njit.edu). Learn more about any faculty member by clicking on their name in red.
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Matthew P. Adams, Ph.D., Oregon State University |
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Rayan H. Assaad, Ph.D., Missouri University of Science and Technology |
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| Matthew J. Bandelt, Ph.D., Stanford University (matthew.j.bandelt@njit.edu) Performance, applications, design, and modeling of sustainable and durable construction materials for enhanced lifecycle performance and reduced environmental footprint, behavior and design of ductile cementitious composites (e.g., UHPC, HPFRCC, FRC, etc.) for mechanical and environmental loading conditions, and development and application of nonlinear finite element modeling tools to predict the structural performance and deterioration of novel materials and structural systems. |
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| Michel Boufadel, Ph.D., Columbia University (Michel.boufadel@njit.edu) Oil spills (offshore and onshore), fate and transport of in multimedia at multiscales, and water flow and solute transport in coastal systems (open water and subsurface). |
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| Steven Chien, Ph.D., University of Maryland (chien@njit.edu) Public transportation systems, intelligent transportation systems, transportation systems analysis, dynamic control and prediction systems, and traffic simulation. |
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| Janice Daniel, Ph.D., Texas A & M University (daniel@njit.edu) Transportation safety, traffic operations and control, congestion strategies, adaptive traffic control, urban freight movement, and work zone analysis. |
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| Branislav Dimitrijevic, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology (dimitrijevic@njit.edu) Performance-based transportation planning and programming, integrated travel demand and land use modeling, decision support systems for traffic operations, incident and congestion management, connected vehicle applications for personalized mobility management, and the effect of technology on regional mobility and shared use mobility. |
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| Yuan Ding, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology (ding@njit.edu) Pneumatic fracturing process, stochastic modeling in groundwater, dynamic fracturing of soils, rad waste, brownfields, waste recycling, water and wastewater treatment, microhydrodynamics, combined sewer overflow, and soil erosion. |
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| Fadi A. Karaa, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (fadi.a.karaa@njit.edu) Critical infrastructure systems, water and wastewater infrastructure planning: repair, rehabilitation and reconstruction, underground utilities management systems, multi-hazard flood coastal resilience, engineering and construction project management and controls, dam safety and monitoring systems, as well as data warehousing and analytics for performance management. |
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| Oladoyin Kolawole, Ph.D., Texas Tech University (oladoyin.kolawole@njit.edu) Mechanics and engineering behavior of geomaterials (rock, soil) and cementitious materials, biogeomechanics/biogeotechnics, slope stability, rock grouting, carbon sequestration and energy geo-storage, energy geotechnics, underground engineering infrastructure, and geotechnical-related hazard mitigation. |
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| Walter Konon, M.S.C.E., City University of New York (konon@njit.edu) Development and testing of the cleaner wick system for in-situ removal of contaminants from soil and groundwater, Infrastructure remediation and development. |
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| Jo Young Lee, Ph.D., University of Virginia (jo.y.lee@njit.edu) Vehicular wireless communications technology, traffic operations (stochastic traffic signal) optimization, highway automation (cooperative adaptive cruise control, autonomous vehicle control, cooperative vehicle infrastructure system), and traffic simulation modeling (microscopic traffic simulation, wireless communications network simulation). |
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| Taha Marhaba, Ph.D., Rutgers University (marhaba@njit.edu) Impact of raw water quality on drinking water treatment, development of analytical techniques for rapid pollution detection and delineation in raw water and treatment processes, and nanotechnology for water treatment. |
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| Jay N. Meegoda, Ph.D., University of California, Davis (meegoda@njit.edu) Remediation of contaminated soils, sediments and ground water, mineralization of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), shale gas extraction and shale softening, reuse of food waste, engineering properties of contaminated soils, centrifugal modeling of contaminant transport, micro-mechanics, reuse of contaminated soils, ultrasound research, and underground infrastructure. |
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| Thomas Olenik, Ph.D., Rutgers University (olenik@njit.edu) Environmental regulations and storm water management. |
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| M. Ala Saadeghvaziri, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (ala@njit.edu) Structural engineering with emphasis on non-linear response of structures and fsi, finite element and computational methods, earthquake engineering, extreme events engineering and structural qualifications, structural applications of composite materials. |
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| Sunil Saigal, Ph.D., Purdue University (saigal@njit.edu ) Computational mechanics, nanotechnology-composite structures, computational cardio-mechanics, and orthopedic biomechanics. |
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| Lazar Spasovic, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (lazar.spasovic@njit.edu) Optimizing container port operations, freight demand forecasting, incident management strategies, and traffic simulation. |
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Arjun Venkatesan, Ph.D., Arizona State University |
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| Methi Wecharatana, Ph.D., University of Illinois (wecharatan@njit.edu) Structural Mechanics and Materials Engineering. |
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| Wen Zhang, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology (wen.zhang@njit.edu) Environmental nanotechnology, photocatalysis, reactive membrane filtration, and sustainable nanomaterials for water treatment, disinfection, and renewable energy production. |
